Episode 6

Episode 6

Adeola Dera Ofurum Pov:

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9 Years ago.

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I was only ten when it all happened. My mum had dropped me off and just when I entered the gate I heard the gunshots...it wasn't only one bullet or two it was multiple.... before my very eyes I saw my mum's body destroyed with bullets, The whole school was in frenzy, in the midst of the frenzy I stood there, Transfixed on her lifeless body on the ground. The security men grabbed me and tried taking me to a safe place...I couldn't say anything.

My mother was Assassinated.

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*In this world a man must either be the anvil or the hammer*

Henry .L. Wordsworth

I couldn't pretty wrap my head around anything..at the moment...The place I was looked so bad...it felt like there was a bomb blast cause I saw destroyed buildings and smokes...it really made me nervous. I was reminded of the painting of the second world war I saw in a War museum some time ago. I wanted to laugh, I mean there's no way I could have gone back to the past, Was there a time machine? What is this?.

I started walking looking around for someone to ask a question, But then I heard a loud Female voice, from the sky to be precise... calling me.

"Adeola... Welcome to Krieg city.

The land of Violence, Force and Legal constraints"

I knew the meaning of Violence, Force and I knew what Legal was and Also Constraints...Now I was starting to believe that This was the past.. Wow.

The voice continued.

"I Am ONE. And you were chosen to come to this world because you were needed here, I will be your Guide here but I won't give you all the information you will have to get from here...you are only allowed to ask me Two questions a day and by the End of Seven days you must have chosen your purpose here. To Save or survive."

All she was saying was not making sense to me, What did she mean by I was chosen?, Where was I? What time was it? How did I get here?. This was hard for me to process.

Very hard.

"I Have a warning to give to you, If you Do not Choose any of these options...you would be killed. Remember you must either save or survive."

And that was it...She showed me the watch on my hand which was like a timer for each 24 hours. And assured me that It would not be seen by any body except me."

I sat on the floor wondering, my heart pounding in fear and my Anxiety attacks started up...I had to do this but why?.

Getting on my feet I decided to walk around to look for any human being. As I drew closer to a main town I saw people... dirty looking people with thorn clothes and bruises it was a pitiful site to behold...I felt awkward too cause I was the only person who was neat enough. There was tents everywhere and it looked like a refugee camp. I tried approaching an old man who was making a fire to boil water, but then I heard vehicles approaching, everybody suddenly became agitated...as confused as I was I wanted to check it out but then Someone yanked me away and hid me behind one of the camps.. I was startled and looked to see a person of about my age caramel coloured guy with brown eyes. He looked dirty like the others, so I was guessing he was with them.

He asked me to keep quiet and listen. Now

I was immediately scared.

I saw that the vehicles that approached where the Army troops, The looked slightly different and had advanced weapons, weapons that I have never seen before. Was this earth? Was I in the future or the past? I couldn't understand. They spoke to the group of people there and told them that they should all ready their children both male and female to be recruited by them. And that if the loved their lives they wouldn't do anything fishy. I felt like crying... using people's children for war..that was so Terrible.

They Army troop got into their vehicles and zoomed off. Then the guy who was beside me introduced himself. "Hi I'm Nat. What about you and where are you from?"

I told him my name and told him that I had no idea how I got here...I was lost and I needed help to go back home. He looked confused though as he told me that all the boarders leading to and out of this place were blocked.

"Is their a War going on?"

I asked trying to know how this all happened.

"This is worse than war.. it's the most unfortunate thing that Has ever happened..."

I felt sorry as he stood up and looked at me. "Let me show you to the others.."

He led me through a heap of broken metal, bricks and stones through a hidden certain bomb blasted area and into another camp site not too far away....There I saw children of all ages people around my age and older, infact most youths were here. They looked so raggy and hungry. This people were really suffering here and it was a Fact. I had read a lot of books on similar cases on war mostly for school Projects and I knew these people were suffering. Everyone came out of the shelter and began looking at me, it was a bit funny cause I wasn't used to audience's like them. Nat took me to see the oldest person in their group and the leader of the shelter.. he was using a prosthetic leg and he looked like he was in his twenties.

"Garth This is A.D and A.D this is Garth"

Did he just call me A.D? I laughed within me, my name wasn't so hard to pronounce but I guess for him though. Garth's scrutinizing looks were strong...but he didn't treat me rudely. "Welcome, Ad "

" He looked tired and I noticed that he was reading something on the desk. They brought me a cup of water and I felt really touched. They were finding ways to make me comfortable when they were in uncomfortable states.

A little girl kept peeping outside the tent. And I caught her cause she was looking at me. She was wearing a torn gown and I wondered how cold the nights must have been for her, I took off my jacket and handed it to her to wear... She was so happy and her smiles made me happy. In my pocket I remembered that I had about ten candies in each of my pockets so I took it out and shared it to the others... showing them how to open it. They seemed very thankful and I went back in to where Garth and Nat were.

"Can I ask you guys how this war started?"

Blazerema